Fortune's Rocks

by Anita Shreve

In the summer of 1899, 15-year-old Olympia Biddeford visits the New Hampshire coast with her wealthy Boston family. Spirited and bright, she soon befriends her father's colleague, Dr. John Haskell, a talented writer, respected physician, and enthusiastic philanthropist. Olympia's summer of awakenings--both intellectual and sexual--turns bleak when her love affair with the good doctor, who is a married father of four and 26 years Olympia's senior, is uncovered.

Editions of Fortune's Rocks

ISBN 9780316678100	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Back Bay Books	Date 2001	Price $1.00	New
ISBN 9780792799900	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Chivers Sound Library	Date 2001	Price None Available
ISBN 9780375409486	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Random House	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used - Good
ISBN 9780375410055	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Random House	Date 1999	Price None Available
ISBN 9780375430527	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780316781015	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Little Brown & Co	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age. Fortune's Rocks is the story of Olympia Biddeford -- privileged, well educated, and mature beyond her years -- and her affair with John Haskell, who not only is a physician, essayist, and champion of mill workers but also is married with three children. Drawn inexorably together on the night of the summer solstice, the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for all involved.

Media Reviews

"[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years."

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